Photo: Owen Holdaway
"Whenever a war wages, our women end up as the victims."
'Now we are defending ourselves from the evil. We are defending all the minorities in the region. We will do whatever is asked of us."
Hundreds of Yazidi women, formerly ISIS sex slaves have formed an all-female battalion called the 'Sun Ladies' to launch massive assault against their abusers in Iraq. The Sun Ladies have teamed up with Kurdish forces to launch an operation to retake Mosul in Iraq.
They are among around 2,000 captives who have escaped their Jihadi tormentors who subjected them to horrific torture and rape and massacred thousands of their loved ones after storming their villages in the summer of 2014.
Photo: Owen Holdaway
Khider, (r.), leads more than 100 Yazidi women, many of who escaped sexual slavery. On left is one of her fighters
Now, driven by a collective desire for vengeance, the battalion is preparing for an offensive on the ISIS stronghold of Mosul where many were exchanged by militants to serve as their sex slaves. Capt Khatoon Khider, a member of the Sun Ladies, told Fox News:
"Whenever a war wages, our women end up as the victims."
'Now we are defending ourselves from the evil. We are defending all the minorities in the region. We will do whatever is asked of us."
Photo: Owen Holdaway
According to the United Nations ISIS is still holding an estimated 3,500 people captive in Iraq, the majority women and girls from the Yazidi community.
Survivors have recounted horrendous stories of sexual abuse and torture. One Yazidi mother, who gave birth while being held as a sex slave, told how she was not allowed to feed her newborn son. Her captor then beheaded the boy when he cried.
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